1764 in France

• March 15 – The day after his return to Paris from a nine-year mission, French explorer and scholar Anquetil Du Perron presents a complete copy of the Zoroastrian sacred text, the Zend Avesta, to the Bibliothèque Royale.{{cite book|title=The Zend-Avesta|editor=Darmesteter, James|location=Oxford|publisher=Clarendon Press|year=1880|page=xv}}
• April 21 – Residents of French Louisiana are informed for the first time that they will come under Spanish rule (from 1769) as the result of a secret agreement of November 13, 1762 whereby France has ceded all of its North American territory west of the Mississippi River.{{cite book|first=John B.|last=Dillon|title=Oddities of Colonial Legislation in America|publisher=Robert Douglass Publishing|year=1879|page=322}}
• The government withdraws wartime taxes.
• Beast of Gévaudan first appears.
• Carthusian monks at Grande Chartreuse perfect a commercial recipe for Chartreuse (liqueur).{{cite web|url=https://www.chartreuse.fr/en/home/|title=The Products of the Carthusian Fathers|work=Chartreuse|accessdate=2023-10-27}}

• 11 February – Joseph Chénier, poet (d. 1811)
• 13 April – Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, marshal (d. 1830)
• 26 April – Claude-Laurent Bourgeois de Jessaint, aristocrat and civic administrator (d. 1853)
• 3 May – Princess Élisabeth of France, sister of Louis XVI (executed 1794){{cite web |title=Elizabeth Of France {{!}} princess of France |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-of-France |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=19 May 2020 |language=en}}
• 13 August – Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, general (d. 1813)
• 7 December
• Pierre Prévost, panorama painter (d. 1823)
• Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, Marshal of France (d. 1841)
• Undated – Sophie de Condorcet, political hostess and feminist (d. 1822)

• 15 April – Madame de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV (b. 1721)
• 11 September – Countess Dash, writer (born 1704)
• 12 September – Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer (b. 1683)
• 22 October – Jean-Marie Leclair, composer and violinist (murdered) (b. 1697)
• 23 October – Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, naval officer (b. 1683)

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